Creatura (2023) review

Self-employed graphic designer Mila (Gimeno) is having intimacy issues with her boyfriend Marcel (Oriol Pla) and it's putting a strain on their relationship, so she flashes back to when she was a little girl (her lady zone would "flutter") and then to her teenage years, where she would make out with boys, go on her webcam with strangers and be slut-shamed.  This supposed "exploration" of "womanhood" and how the events of the past insidiously infect the present day might be coming from a personal place for the actor-director, but the approach is terribly superficial: she reduces her subject to only her sexuality and fails to develop her into a fully realized individual with goals and dreams (in a way, it's sadly hedonistic) and I started to feel bad for Marcel, who has to put up with her tantrums.  The skin rash she develops as a child and then reappears as an adult is particularly symbolic in that, like her fragile mind, she doesn't even bother seeking treatment for it from a medical professional.  And I don't want to get all Freudian, but I suspect she has more in common with Electra than she wants to think about....